Design for a Trompe-l'oeil Ceiling Decoration

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 November 2010, no. 6330). (Marty de Cambiaire, Paris); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Design for a Trompe-l'oeil Ceiling Decoration

Angelis, Pietro de

c. 1780

Accession Number

2016.66.1

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash and graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 59.8 × 45 cm (23 9/16 × 17 11/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund